Loughborough public school bully hailing from Coalville. In with the territorials in 1939, evacuated out of Norway in 1940, emergency war commission in early 41, in 2nd Para Battalion by 1942 for Bruneval, then Fustian and Slapstick, skirted out of Arnhem in '44 though only God knows how- got sent up to 7th Bat to make up for an officer shortage just in time to grit through the Bulge and then across the Rhine during Varsity. Miserable god awful time in jungle training for somethin' that didn't originally go through, but they another glorious time in Malaya and then Singapore. Finally relieved by the god damn Dutch in Jakarta.

May be lying about it all- considered most of the war "bloody brilliant" because it allowed him to shoot Jerries for 'fun and profit'. Rumors abound of a basement in Hamminkeln of a handful of severely beaten Fallschirmjägers being forced to sing "How sad our state by nature is!" before sustained bren gun fire and laughter.

Everything may just be lies and innuendo. Last heard of running a shop somewhere in Leicester.